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The Job Drought in Finance and Tech Is Ending

The solid economic growth of the past few years hasn’t translated for professionals looking for white-collar jobs. A hiring boom in 2021 turned into...

19.04.2024 5

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Enjoy Cheaper Rent While You Can. It Won’t Last.

The current state of the market for renters is akin to being in the eye of a multi-year hurricane. Rents surged in 2021 and 2022, driving a wave of...

12.04.2024 20

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A Dream Run for Homebuilders Is Ending

Homebuilders were one of the big surprise winners in the US economy last year as record-low inventory of existing houses for sale and gently rising...

26.03.2024 20

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Who’s Waiting on the Fed? Not the Credit Market

The timing and pace of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts will consume economists and market commentators for months to come. But an emerging story in...

19.03.2024 10

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Squeezing Realtors Is Just What the Housing Market Needs

News that the National Association of Realtors agreed to settle litigation over commission rules for real estate agents has fueled intense discussion...

18.03.2024 4

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Pandemic Homeowners Are the New Envied (and Hated?) Elite

The pandemic years transformed wealth in the US, sowing the seeds of a new form of inequality. The divide is clear when describing the state of...

08.03.2024 4

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Need to Sell Your House? It’s Time to Hustle

If you need to sell your home in the next few months, I’d get on with it. As we enter the spring selling season, it’s becoming increasingly clear...

29.02.2024 10

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A Soft Landing for the US Economy Could Slip Away

Stocks and bonds rallied at the end of last year on the hope of a seemingly improbable combination of dynamics playing out to support financial assets...

07.02.2024 10

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The American Economy Is a Shop Full of Surprises

Economic growth in the US is off to a better start than expected this year, thanks largely to a long-awaited pickup in consumers buying “stuff”...

31.01.2024 7

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Myrtle Beach Eyes Austin’s Boomtown Crown

Cities such as Boise, Austin and Phoenix defined the pandemic housing boom. Now, as falling mortgage rates raise the prospect of 2024 being a strong...

25.01.2024 10

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Shorter Workweek Is Canary of the Labor Market

Corporate America has greeted 2024 with a run of job-cut announcements. The reductions, though modest, seem puzzling at a time when the stock market...

18.01.2024 10

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The Fed Won’t Do Slow and Steady If the Labor Market Wobbles

I wrote last week about how interest rate cuts in 2024 should boost cyclical areas of the economy that were already set to rebound, lifting economic...

08.01.2024 7

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Coming Rate Cuts Portend a 1980s-Style Economic Resurgence

The key economic question for 2024 is how to think about the interest rate cuts we’re likely to get from the Federal Reserve. Are they good news for...

04.01.2024 7

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The Stock-Bond Party Is Running Out of Punch

Stronger signaling from the Federal Reserve that interest rate cuts are on the menu in 2024 understandably sent both stocks and bonds soaring on...

15.12.2023 4

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Frustrated Homebuyers Are About to Catch a Break

Homebuyers have suffered some severe whiplash in recent months. After all, when mortgage rates hit 8% in late October, it was reasonable to think the...

07.12.2023 10

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Unhappy American Consumers Will Welcome a Slower Economy

The unhappiness of American consumers despite rapid job and economic growth in the past few years is a hotly debated topic. Is it inflation? High...

29.11.2023 6

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The Case for Two Fed Rate Cuts in Early 2024 Is Building

Now that there’s a growing consensus that the Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates — a shift I predicted last month — it’s time to...

17.11.2023 10

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The Job Market Slowdown Is Getting Hard to Ignore

It’s easy to look at the rise in the unemployment rate over the past six months and attribute it to a growing labor force, as Goldman Sachs Group...

14.11.2023 10

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Fed Needs to Forget About Inflation and Focus on Jobs

The inflation scare is barely behind us, and it is already time for the Federal Reserve to focus on recession risks. The recent trajectory of job...

08.11.2023 7

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American Banks Now Look Poised to Stoke the Economy

One consistent overhang in an otherwise pretty good year for the US economy has been tightening credit standards at banks. Lower loan growth has meant...

03.11.2023 10

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Exodus From New York and San Francisco Is Far From Over

The big migration story of the pandemic was the emptying out of major US cities. As more employees return partly or fully to their offices, people...

30.10.2023 3

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The US Housing Market Is Now Completely Broken

For the first time since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, every part of the housing market is now poised to worsen. The resale...

20.10.2023 3

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Inflation or Recession? CEOs Will Decide Next Month

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20.09.2023 8

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Worried About the American Consumer? Don’t Be.

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12.09.2023 5

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Cities Need People, People Need Homes. Both Must Wait.

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07.09.2023 9

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